Jack is back with - Kiss of De'AthWorth over 65 billions dollars a year, art is big business. Many thousands of talented artists across the globe try to break into this world, either legitimately or otherwise.Most art museums throughout the world keep quiet about what they have stored in back rooms or even hanging in their galleries from unknown or known forgers and fakers. It is believed that well over half of what we believe to be genuine masterpieces, are actually forgeries.Called in by his friend and former colleague's lover, Colonel Rene Degas is dealing with the death of an Englishman and Jack finds he is drawn in to this fascinating but murky, cynical and corrupt world of Art.Piers De'Ath is a celebrity art critic and influencer who has been found dead in unusual circumstances at his chateau in France. But it seems that De'Ath is more than a critic. He makes or breaks artists for his own satisfaction and also for his very considerable gain.From Normandy to Cornwall in the westcountry, London and Montmartre Paris, Jack follows the trail of forged art work and artists to seek out the truth. Finding broken dreams and promises, chicanery and deliberate confuscation.Death plays its part in this murky world.>The series Death Duty -Jack Mowgley, the resolutely unreconstructed, unredeemable and unapologetically out-of-date policeman learns that a passenger has gone missing on a ferry crossing to Cherbourg. There are no suspicious circumstances, but what appears to be a routine investigation soon develops into a sometimes bizarre and eventually life-threatening entanglement for the dinosaur detective...Dead Money -DI Mowgley is enjoying his daily bacon sarnie at Ginger's Caff when a bizarre event occurs on his patch at the International ferry port. The bodies pile up as the dinosaur detective pursues his quarry across Europe...Deadly Tide -Another close shave for the unconventional DI as he takes on an international drugs gang with links to the Russian Mafia: Death á la Carte -Bad boy detective Jack has jumped before being pushed and taken early retirement. With no prospects in England, he's moved across the Channel to start again as a P.I. in Normandy. Expecting no more than marital infidelities and financial irregularities, soon is involved in people trafficking, drug smuggling and murder.Dead and Buried -Former SB Inspector Jack Mowgley is scraping a living as a P.I. in Normandy when he is contacted by a former lover who needs his help to find her missing husband. Bulgaria, golden treasure and betrayal looms large for Jack..." />